Former Saskatoon PPC candidate and well-known critic of COVID-19 restrictions Mark Friesen is in a Toronto hospital with COVID-19, one in every of his supporters stated in a video.
The video is titled “How Lengthy Will Canada Stay Docile?” and was posted on the video platform Rumble. In it, supporter Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson shared particulars about Friesen’s situation.
“A lot of you’re following what is occurring with Mark Friesen. I really like this man,” Tyler Thompson tells her viewers. “A lot of you recognize, Mark received COVID, he’s really intubated presently.”
It got here to mild earlier this week that Friesen had pneumonia and was transferred to Ontario, in response to a special video posted by a supporter.
In that video posted Oct. 21, Tamara Lavoie says he has been within the hospital for 3 weeks. She provides that he was in ICU in Saskatoon and transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto on Oct. 20.
Lavoie nor her visitor, former PPC candidate Jody Craven, talked about COVID-19 within the video.
On Friday, Saskatchewan Public Security Company President Marlo Pritchard stated the province’s present focus is shifting COVID-19 sufferers to Ontario, slightly than non-COVID-19 sufferers.
The provincial authorities covers the estimated $20,000 value.
Featured in Tyler Thompson’s Oct. 23 video is an interview with Sean Taylor, a former federal candidate for PPC from B.C who says he’s with Friesen at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Friesen has not spoken publicly and isn’t seen in any movies reviewed by World Information which were posted to social media referencing his sickness. His relations have additionally not been seen or heard from within the social media movies.
Taylor claims to be a former nurse who was fired however doesn’t specify why he was fired.
Within the video, Taylor is donned in PPE and talked about he’s not “double” vaccinated and was not allowed to remain in an unidentified resort.
World Information reached out to Mount Sinai Hospital to ask what their customer guidelines are for people not absolutely vaccinated, however a response was not offered earlier than publishing.
World Information has reached out to a number of of Friesen’s relations for weeks for an replace on his well being however nobody has responded.
“Effectively, he’s sick, proper? He’s in a struggle however I’m hopeful,” Taylor says about Friesen’s situation within the video.
Taylor additionally shared his views about Toronto, a metropolis that has remained beneath stringent public well being measures like gathering restrictions and masks mandates for the reason that starting of the pandemic.
“Once I received off the aircraft yesterday and began travelling by Toronto, it’s a sci-fi horror film out right here,” Taylor stated.
“Simply the thoughts virus out right here, like everybody’s masked and face shields and eye shields and it’s simply, they’re fairly intense in regards to the stuff out right here,” Taylor added.
Tyler Thompson and Taylor additionally talk about how they declare Friesen was handled in hospital.
“We had some glorious care in Saskatoon, it wasn’t everybody, however the meanness with quite a lot of the employees and simply the entire absence of empathy lately,” Taylor stated.
Friesen has been a distinguished critic of public well being measures associated to COVID-19 for the reason that starting of the pandemic. He has appeared and spoken at rallies throughout the province and posts about his views on social media pages.
He attended a protest towards proof-of-vaccination insurance policies exterior Metropolis Hospital in Saskatoon previous to the Sept. 20 federal election.
As of Sunday, a complete of eight sufferers have been transferred to Ontario as Saskatchewan continues to battle the fourth wave of the pandemic.
The province at the moment has the second-highest fee of energetic COVID-19 instances throughout the nation.
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